Woman shoots self in head while driving on I-35

Traffic backs up on Interstate 35 and the access road near the Binz-Engleman exit, where a woman apparently attempted suicide while driving, police said. After the shooting, the woman's blue Dodge Stratus ran into the interstate's median.

Photo By JOHN DAVENPORT/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

A window is shattered on a Dodge Stratus Monday September 23, 2013 at a scene on Interstate 35 northbound near the Binz Engleman exit where a 28-year-old woman apparently shot herself in the head while driving. Traffic was affected in both north and southbound lanes of the interstate and the woman was transported to San Antonio Military Medical Center. Police said a note was found inside of the car and that a window had to be smashed to get inside of the car because the car's doors were locked.

Photo By JOHN DAVENPORT/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

San Antonio police work Monday September 23, 2013 at a scene on Interstate 35 northbound near the Binz Engleman exit where a 28-year-old woman apparently shot herself in the head while driving. Traffic was affected in both north and southbound lanes of the interstate and the woman was transported to San Antonio Military Medical Center. Police said a note was found inside of the car and that a window had to be smashed to get inside of the car because the car's doors were locked.

Photo By JOHN DAVENPORT/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

A wrecker tows away a Four door Dodge Stratus (bottom, center) Monday September 23, 2013 at a scene on Interstate 35 northbound near the Binz Engleman exit where a 28-year-old woman apparently shot herself in the head while driving. Traffic was affected in both north and southbound lanes of the interstate and the woman was transported to San Antonio Military Medical Center. Police said a note was found inside of the car and that a window had to be smashed to get inside of the car because the car's doors were locked.

San Antonio – A 27-year-old woman was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center in unknown condition after she apparently shot herself in the head while driving on Interstate 35 Monday morning, police said.

Police said the woman, identified in a police report as Teila Ibarra, shot herself just after 8 a.m. Monday.

Her sedan, a blue Dodge Stratus, then ran into the median that separates the north and southbound lanes of I-35.

San Antonio police blocked off two northbound lanes of I-35 near the Binz-Engleman exit because of the shooting.

The incident, plus a separate car crash nearby, caused at least a 20-minute traffic delay on both sides of the highway during rush hour Monday morning. As of 10 a.m., traffic had improved to only a two- to-three-minute delay.